Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMATrying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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